Taking advantage of the opportunity afforded by the necessity for again reprinting A Year in the Fields , the publishers have added to the volume a biographical sketch of Mr. Burroughs and a number of new illustrations.

PAGE A HAWK IN SIGHT Frontispiece RIVERBY, MR. BURROUGHS'S HOME ON THE HUDSON viii "SLABSIDES" x TRACKS IN THE SNOW 2 THE STUDY 8 OUT FOR A WALK 14 THE OLD APPLE TREE 18 WINTER AT RIVERBY ON THE HUDSON 26 WOOD FOR THE STUDY FIRE 38 AN EVENING IN SPRING 42 AT THE STUDY DOOR 50 A WOODLAND BROOK 62 AN APRIL DAY 70 THE HOME OF A SPIDER 86 A BIRD SONG 98 IN THE WOODS 122 PICKING WILD FLOWERS 134 A FLOWER IN A WOODLAND ROADWAY 146 A STALWART WEED 156 AMONG THE ROCKS 160 ON THE EDGE OF A CATSKILL "SUGAR BUSH" 166 A CATSKILL ROADWAY 182 BEECHNUTS 194 (Mr. Burroughs's Boyhood Home seen in the distance.) BY THE STUDY FIRE 206